Sauce Labs is an American cloud-hosted, web and mobile application automated testing platform company based in San Francisco, California. Background Sauce Labs was founded in August 2008. Huggins was named by InfoWorld as one of the top CTOs of 2010 for his work on Sauce OnDemand. Sauce Labs allows users to run tests in the cloud on more than 700 different browser platform, operating system and device combinations, providing a comprehensive test infrastructure for automated and manual testing of desktop and mobile applications using Selenium, Appium and JavaScript unit testing frameworks. There is no VM setup or maintenance required, live breakpoints are accessible while the tests are running which enables you to investigate a problem manually. Sauce Labs also provides a secure testing protocol, Sauce Connect, for testing applications behind customer firewalls. In 2013, Sauce Labs was recommended by Adobe after it closed its BrowserLab testing platform for web applications. It also supports the Firebug plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. Sauce Labs is also the first platform to support Automated Testing for Microsoft Edge. In 2015, the company was named by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the top 100 fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area for a second consecutive year, reporting 3-year revenue growth of 472%. In 2015, Sauce Labs secured an additional $15 million in Series D expansion funding from investor Toba Capital. In 2016, Sauce Labs announced it had raised a $70 million Series E round from Centerview Capital Technology, IVP, and Adams Street Partners. In December 2016, the company announced the acquisition of Test Object, a real device mobile app testing platform. In 2017, SD Times wrote that Sauce Labs offers more than 800 combinations of different operating systems, browsers, and real devices available for testing, and that the company had just announced the Sauce plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that automates the build process. The publication later reported on the release of Sauce Labs Test Analytics, a solution that expands data analytics and enables teams test faster, smarter, and more efficiently. Sauce Labs was also named for the fourth consecutive year to the San Francisco Business Times top 100 fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area. In the same year, Sauce Labs was named to the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies for the 2nd consecutive year Sauce Labs was also named by IDC as a leader in the